Out of the blue, seven-year-old FPS Titanfall 2 has fully working multiplayer again-

Beloved robot friend simulator and first-person shooter Titanfall 2 has had a matchmaking problem for years. Even after its previous server issues were fixed, players would still be disconnected if they had to queue for any length of time. And, given that Titanfall 2 came out in 2016, it’s pretty likely you’d be waiting in that lobby a while.

Surprisingly, an official update has appeared …

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Pewdiepie manages to get banned from Twitch without actually streaming on Twitch-

Just over a month after making a surprise semi-return to Twitch, Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg has been banned from the platform. A reason for the suspension hasn’t been announced, but some fans are speculating that it could be due to one of his old VODs.

Pewdiepie is famous as one of the most dominant figures on YouTube—in fact, despite ‘retiring’ from YouTube in 2020 (wh…

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Exclusive- The sickest pinball game of 2019 is getting a sequel-

Pinball contains multitudes. I mean, not just multiball—pinball has a rich history of games within games, like the mini pinball table below the playfield in The Munsters or the boxing minigame in Champion Pub. 2019’s Demon’s Tilt, a pinball game I loved, embraced the benefits of a virtual table by being multiple screens tall, throwing bullet hell attacks at your ball, and having more than…

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Square Enix president bemoans weak Final Fantasy sales and says his restructure is existential- ‘Our winning formula is no longer effective’-

The relatively new Square Enix president Takashi Kiryu has been making some big decisions in reviewing the company’s development process “from scratch“. The reasoning behind such moves is now becoming clearer thanks to Square Enix’s financial results, with the company warning investors earlier this month they could expect to see heavy losses, alongside which it announced the cance…

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The two best wireless gaming headsets are on offer and fighting for your Prime Day dollar today-

If you’re looking to snag yourself a decent Amazon Prime Day wireless gaming headset deal then you’re in luck. Not one, but two of our favorites are currently on offer, meaning won’t need to be tethered to your PC if need to step away to grab those all-important snacks. Both the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless and the Razer BlackShark V2 Pro are on sale today and both happen to feature pro…

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Singapore detains teens under controversial act after they played on ISIS-themed Roblox servers-

Singapore has detained teenagers in two separate cases under the country’s Internal Security Act (ISA), a controversial law that allows the country’s home affairs minister to have people detained without trial for up to two years. The ISA has in recent years been used to target militants of various stripes and now authorities allege these two boys, one 15 and one 16 years old, had become radica…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 dev spills the secret sauce- Players love finding a place, then ‘ending up 2 hours and 3 puzzles later in a sacrificial chamber of a cult that murders giraffes’-

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a Larian Studios game, and boy howdy are those things dense—as CRPGs tend to be. A far cry from the open-world RPGs saturated with merry little tasks that succeeded them, most CRPGs put you in a large-ish area that’s utterly rammed with stuff. Dungeons, quests, dialogue, sewers—on average a CRPG’s world is smaller, but by Mystra is it full.

That’s a…

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Valve just unveiled ‘the definitive first generation Steam Deck’ with an OLED screen and new Sephiroth APU-

And just like that, a new Steam Deck is here. We’ve been expecting a refresh of Valve’s handheld gaming PC for a little while now, and it’s touting this Steam Deck OLED as “the definitive first generation Steam Deck, it’s the one that we would have shipped if we could have.”

The new Steam Deck OLED comes in a few flavours, most obviously the $549 512GB and $649 1TB trims. That’s largely t…

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Stellaris’ next DLC is gonna take you to another dimension-

Galactic tyranny sim Stellaris is officially getting weird. Paradox has announced the game’s next DLC—named Astral Planes—and it’s promising to let you venture into whole new dimensions, where everything is topsy-turvy and the laws of physics go out the window.

Announced yesterday and releasing alongside Stellaris’ upcoming 3.10 update, Astral Planes is a “narrative-focused ex…

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UK police bust a fast food worker turned £3 billion bitcoin scam member on a £7.5 million money laundering charge-

It’s not every day that you read that a five-year investigation to crack an illegal operation involving billions of pounds worth of bitcoin was solved thanks to the excessive spending habits of an ex-takeaway worker, but that’s exactly what’s recently happened. The person in question has been found guilty of laundering 150 bitcoins, worth a mere £7.5 million, but the UK’s Metropolitan Pol…

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